Munot (ship, 1936)
 The Munot 1980 near Stein am Rhein
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The Munot ( ENI 02208286) is a passenger ship that was originally built for the Swiss steam boat company Untersee und Rhein , today the Swiss shipping company Untersee und Rhein . She was the sister ship of the Arenenberg ; Ships of the same design are the Mouette and the Cygne , which operated on Lake Neuchâtel and Lake Murten from 1939 . Its successor was the 1998 Munot of the same name .
history
The Munot was built in 1935 with the construction number 304 at Motoren- und Schiffbau GmbH Bodanwerft in Kressbronn on Lake Constance and christened on June 20, 1936. She belonged to the first generation of diesel ships, which replaced the old steamers of the Swiss Steamboat Company, and worked for this company on the Rhine for 60 years . In 1996 it was sold to the tour operator Jan Hofstra, who used it from its new home port of Drachten for excursions in the port of Rotterdam and on the Dutch waters as far as the Wadden Islands, but also offered longer river trips on the Munot that included luggage historic Saurer buses were transported to the hotels. After Hofstra withdrew from the business and left it to one of his sons, the Munot was offered for sale. Jan Hofstra died unexpectedly in 2015. In March 2017, the Munot became the property of SRF Shipbuilding in Harlingen .
Status
When Jan Hofstra took over the ship, he only had to pay a low price and received the engine of her already scrapped sister ship Arenenberg as a spare part for the Munot , but was ordered not to operate the ship on the Rhine because the Schaffhausen previous owners wanted no competition there. This also prevented the Munot from being operated by an interest group that was founded at the time to keep the historic ship in Switzerland.
From the fuselage of the Munot the side balconies had to be cut off to the transport of Munot overland to Basel to allow, from where they Duisburg was moved to the Netherlands. They were not reassembled in Holland. However, these balconies had been retrofitted anyway, so that Hofstra's modification brought the ship closer to its original state. Hofstra, who did not rename the Munot, did not make any other changes to the ship if possible: the ticket counter is still behind the entrance. A few steps lower forward is the first class saloon, which is kept in red, while the second class, which is towards the stern, is green. The furnishings in the salons have been preserved in their original state, as has the driver's cab and the diesel engine, which came from the Sulzer machine factory.
However, a captain once damaged the bow of the ship, as a result of which the city's coat of arms cast in metal, which had served as a bow emblem, had to be dismantled, and in 2013 the ship's drive train had to be replaced after the clutch was worn out: because the ship was in Holland is only allowed to drive 8 km / h, the connection between the engine and the propeller was regularly unhooked in order to reduce the speed.
future plans
A renovation of the ship was necessary after the end of operations at Hofstra, if it was not to be scrapped. A buyback by the former owners was apparently not seriously considered, since the Munot is too small for the current fleet of the Swiss shipping company Untersee und Rhein, but ship lovers from different countries argued for the preservation of the authentic watercraft. “The MS“ Munot ”belonged to the first generation of diesel ships that were used on Swiss waters: These new types of ships, inspired by the Bauhaus design, began to displace the paddle steamers , which were subsequently decommissioned and often scrapped. Now the diesel ships are threatened with the same fate: only a few examples from the interwar period are still in use or have escaped the welding torch. With each further scrapping, the group of contemporary witnesses of this era becomes smaller. One day - experts warn - the abandonment of these ships could be regretted just as bitterly as those of the steamers, ”wrote Robin Blanck in 2014 in the Schaffhauser Nachrichten . However, in 2002 the Neue Zürcher Zeitung still said: “A change in public opinion that would be comparable to the wave of sympathy for the last paddle steamers that began around 1970 is not in sight today. Although the diesel veterans, in contrast to the surviving steamships, do not represent the late period of an era, but stand for innovation in technology and design history, protests against the decommissioning of old units - if they were heard at all - usually came too late. "
In the spring of 2016, the idea of integrating the Munot into the exhibition on the history of the shipyard on the site of its former shipyard was discussed . Back then, sponsors had not yet been found. A year later, the Munot was sold to SRF Shipbuilding, a shipyard that specializes in the restoration of historic ships. However, this does not seem to have started the restoration, because the ship was soon up for sale again. In 2018 the Munot became the property of Lucie Erbanová and Petr Srámek, who had it transferred to Pasohlávky . The Munot was supposed to be used on the Novomlýnský reservoir after renovation work.
Individual evidence
- ↑ MS Munot (1936) on: www.bodenseeschifffahrt.de
- ↑ a b Cultural monuments are disappearing from the Swiss lakes. First generation of motor ships threatened , in: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , February 4, 2002, online at www.nzz.ch
- ↑ a b Stefan Hellstern, The sad story of the MS «Munot» , in: Poller 1, 2017, p. 14 f., Online at www.binnenschifferforum
- ↑ Robin Blanck, A lady is waiting for the third spring , in: Schaffhauser Nachrichten , January 11, 2014, online at www.bodenseeschifffahrt.de
- ↑ Anette Bengelsdorf, Bodan shipyard becomes a cultural asset , in: Südkurier , March 17, 2016, online at www.suedkurier.de
- ↑ Sales offer on fikkers.nl
- ↑ MS Munot I at www.bodenseeschifffahrt.de